Re: "Indigenous" practices that discourage child sexual abuse & incest

["Eric Mart" <emart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Lisa,

Some years back I started work on a book on culture bound disorders which I 
will probably never finish. I do recall that while researching Windigo 
syndrome reading that the Algonquin tribe kept distance between siblings 
after puberty by having a cultural norm of a "laughing" relationship. This 
meant that they could tease each other within certain bounds to maintain 
connection, but that they did not become more emotionally intimate until 
adulthood. I also recall that this was observed in other cultures outside of 
the North American First Peoples. Is that what the article you have is 
about?

Eric G. Mart, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic)
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Manchester, New Hampshire 03103
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lfontes@rcn.com>
To: <child-maltreatment-research-l@cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:08 PM
Subject: "Indigenous" practices that discourage child sexual abuse & incest


> Dear COlleagues,
>
> For an article, I am looking for anecdotes or literature about practices 
> or stories that are used within given cultures to discourage child sexual 
> abuse.
>
> That is, what have people done for millenia in different parts of the 
> world to protect children, long before Child Protective Services existed.
>
> The only piece on this that I am familiar with is Mulhern's 1990 article 
> in Child Abuse & Neglect: Incest: A laughing matter.
>
> Please feel free to respond on or off-list.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Lisa Fontes, Ph.D.
> Union Institute & University
> 


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